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A blast of arctic air is expected to arrive Sunday night and stick around long enough to break a
130-year-old record by Tuesday morning.

Before that happens, a storm that is expected to start on Sunday morning could dump 4 to 6
inches of snow.

“There could be some freezing rain and sleet mixed in,” said Chief Meteorologist Chris Bradley
of WBNS-TV (Channel 10). “It’s going to be a mess.”

Though just how much snow will fall is still a bit of a riddle, Bradley and Andy Hatzos, a
National Weather Service forecaster in Wilmington, Ohio, say they are confident that temperatures
will plummet.

The deep freeze will begin Sunday with temperatures dropping from a comfortable mid-30s that
afternoon to 2 below zero by overnight.

But that’s nothing compared with the low of minus 16 predicted by early Tuesday morning. And
that’s an actual number expected on a thermometer. Add in the wind chill, and it’s expected to feel
like 40 below zero by Tuesday.

Tuesday’s expected
high temperature: 2 below zero.

“The record low for Tuesday was minus 5 (degrees),” Hatzos said. “That was set in 1884.”